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Poems / vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare, gent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)
- Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)
- Physical Description:
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on title bar: Shakespeare's Poems
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans church-yard, 1640.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- System requirements: graphics-capable WWW browser software.
- text file
- Notes:
- Title from title-page (viewed on August 24, 2000).
- Contains most of the Sonnets (146) grouped under various titles, interspersed with the poems of the Passionate pilgrim, the Lover's complaint, the Phoenix and the turtle, and a number of translations from Ovid falsely ascribed to Shakespeare.
- Collation of print ed.: 8vo. *⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴. [192] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 13 cm.
- Printer's device (McK.no.283) on t.-p.
- "An addition of some excellent poems, to those precedent, of renowned Shakespeare, by other gentlemen": [21] p. at end.
- Digitized and made available in 2000 by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: leaves *2-*4, A1, M1, M4 and plate wanting; ; plate and 2nd t.-p. (leaf A1) supplied in facsimile; leaf M4 supplied in ms.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 22344
- ESTC (RLIN) S106377
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